Walter Isaacson: Gov’t is based on ‘We the People…it’s not based on the divine right of kings’

All right. Next year, the United States turns 250 years old. A quarter of a millennium since a group of revolutionaries put pen to paper and declared the start of a new nation and a new idea.At the center of that idea is one line from the Declaration of Independence. You know it well. We hold these truths to be self-evident.That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Historian Walter ...